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Lady's Got A Gun!

Practicing for my concealed carry test. I didn't want to be "the girl" in the class. My husband first taught me how to shoot on a dependable old .22, then I moved up to the .380, and then finally fell in love with the Ruger .40 he bought me. I can now take it apart and put it back together with my eyes closed.

Recently my daughter and I started teaching several of her friends how to shoot. None of those young ladies will ever have to shake in fear and pray that the 911 call brings help in time.

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Standard shipping containers are about 8 feet wide and 8 feet tall and come in both 20- and 40-foot long styles. The average price of a long container is between $2,500 and $3,500.
The containers can be cut apart and welded back together to form rooms or a home two or three containers wide – or simply left together to form a single container home.
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How many times have you heard someone say, “When the SHTF I am just going to bugout to the woods,” and think that such a “plan” is a simple and feasible idea? I have shaken my head in disbelief copious amounts of time when hearing a “kinda” prepper, utter such a phrase.
Although the woods (or forest as city people prefer to call it) offer a bounty of natural resources, you must possess the survival skills necessary to utilize and harvest them. Actually, getting to the woods from either the suburbs or a city will be a miraculous feat in itself!
Before you continue to plan on grabbing your brand-spanking new bugout bag and heading to the woods, weigh the potentially deadly pros and cons very, very carefully! When you arrive in the "woods" to escape the marauding hordes in the cities and suburbs, good country folks will be standing on the county line with their guns to make sure you do not take one step further!

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Sure, you can find plenty of free printables and how to directions for educational activities on the internet, but then you have to attempt to cobble them together into a comprehensive curriculum program. When you look down at the massive stack of printed worksheets that took you days to weeks to find, it doesn't take long to grasp how closely they resemble the type of work your child would be doing in public school - which is not at all what you intended when making the important decision to homeschool.

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#Preppertalk

To interact with the largest online preparedness community, use the #preppertalk hashtag on Twitter! Survivor Jane authored the Twitter hashtag to create a virtual gathering place for preppers from both around the United States and across the world and to share details of upcoming preparedness events, such as the highly successful Prepper Camp held in Saluda, North Carolina. The hands-on self-reliance preparedness expo is believed to be the first of its kind in America.